About the Authors

Peter Rubbens

Peter.Rubbens@UGent.be

Affiliation KERMIT, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Ruben Props

Affiliation Center for Microbial Technology and Ecology (CMET), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Nico Boon

Affiliation Center for Microbial Technology and Ecology (CMET), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Willem Waegeman

Affiliation KERMIT, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PR RP NB WW. Data curation: PR RP. Formal analysis: PR. Funding acquisition: NB WW. Investigation: PR RP. Methodology: PR RP NB WW. Project administration: NB WW. Resources: NB WW. Software: PR. Supervision: NB WW. Validation: PR. Visualization: PR RP. Writing – original draft: PR RP. Writing – review & editing: PR RP NB WW.